Williams v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 1974 · most notably Schuster v. Schuster (1933), 125 Cal. App. 2d 109 - Jenkins v. Jenkins (1954)
27 state decisions — followed in 13 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Boger v. Boger · Appleton v. Appleton · Weld v. Weld · Kunze v. Kunze · Evans v. Evans
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The wife cannot be convicted of wilful desertion while living apart from her husband as a competent court has said she could do. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fryauf v. Fryauf
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.